August 7, 2025 • 19 mins
Hoosier football has hit the toughest grind of camp, but we hear from head coach Curt Cignetti about his team's development. We also look at Hoosier basketball's battle in Puerto Rico.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hi, you doing everybody, I'm Ken bike up and welcome
to the Peace Podcast. We have worked reached, I should say,
we have reached the worst part of fall camp, and
that is always you get to sort of the middle
to end of the second week, the excitement of the
start of camp is gone, the grind of camp starts
(00:35):
setting in. There's not a game for a couple of
more weeks. So you reach this point the in camp
and keeping the energy up and keeping everybody kind of
focus is really really important, and Kurt Signetti and his
coaching staff do a great job of doing just that,
(00:56):
making sure everybody stays on task, not lose focus, staying crisp,
and that's really important. I'm not saying this as an
indictment of former coaching staffs in any way, shape or form.
It's a very normal thing for players to go through
to where you get to the middle of camp and
(01:16):
it's the same stuff over and over and over. I
don't want to try to disparage anything from other coaches.
I'm just saying that Sega and his group do a
great job of making sure everybody stays crisp, stays on point,
works their way through it. Now again, you have a
couple of weeks until the Old Dominion game. So at
(01:41):
this point you're just kind of looking for incremental improvements
and what is better today than maybe it was last week.
How is everybody approaching everything? And I think that that
Kurt Signetti in what You're about to hear really really
talks about where those improvements are being seen and what
(02:02):
he likes and doesn't like about camp. So we're gonna
be hearing from sig uh here in just a second.
But you know, he is Uh. I really have always
liked his approach to everything. Nothing is super flowery. He's
a He's an interesting guy. He says some interesting things,
(02:23):
uh in interesting ways that get headlines. But his focus
is fantastic. The no nonsense way that he goes about things,
I think really has set the tone for for this
program and has has changed, uh kind of just the
the level and it's different way, different strokes for different folks.
(02:46):
You know, some some coaches are a little more light hearted.
Some coaches are They mold the team to their their will.
Tom Allen, for instance, was a guy who could talk,
tell stories, was friendly. Get to know Tom Allen a
little bit. His teams were very successful let's not overlook
(03:09):
the success that Indiana had under Tom Allen in twenty
nineteen and twenty twenty. This is a different approach that
Signetti brings of just focus of confidence. And I know
that some outsiders think that that sig is a little arrogant.
(03:29):
I don't take it as arrogant. I take it as
confidence in that what he's doing is going to produce results.
And so he doesn't have to say a lot, doesn't
have to have to really delve into a lot of
things deeply. He believes in what he's doing. So it's
different struggs for different folks. Without any further ado though,
(03:50):
midway through camp, let's go ahead and hear from head
coach Kurt Signetti during his weekly press conference at the
media that was held earlier this week.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
All Right, practice for is in the books. Got a
lot to do in a short amount of time. So
that's what training camp is all about.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
So opening up to questions, coach on the first three
practices you've seen tape on, what have been your takeaways
out of week one?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, the first practice we went out, it was really
hot and humid. I think the guys got gassed early.
We had a lot better energy day two, and I
thought we made a big jump on day three. So
that's the key to the drill. Get better, you know,
every single day, improve more, more guys doing their job,
consistently doing things that winning football teams do. Understanding also
(04:46):
that we're installing a lot of new stuff that for
the young guys, you know, it is a little bit
of an overload.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
So, uh, you've had a few true fresh been kind
of in recent years make the jump kind of into
prominent roles. Is the biggest obstacle for those guys the
physical nature of the jump or the mental hurdles you
mentioned kind of overloading them with the install and things
like that. What's kind of the biggest obstacle they need
(05:15):
to over come to kind of true.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Freshmen a little bit of both, you know, when they
graduate and their seniors or fifty years seniors, their body
is gonna look a lot different. But I guess the
main thing would be maturity level and being able to
handle all the things, especially once school starts, you know,
handling success, failure, being consistent, having good habits, not getting
(05:40):
caught up, you know, and things that freshmen get caught
up in. So we got a couple freshmen doing fairly well,
but you know, let's.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
See where we're at.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Just to follow up on that, especially with the Simmer
signing window, it seems like any more so many more
of those guys are coming in mid year. Like ten
years ago, you have a small handful. Now it feels
like more than half a class usually enrolls midyear. What's
changed about both Maybe the way you see freshmen go
through that process when so many more of them have
that spring season first. And what changes maybe about the
(06:13):
way you I don't want to say project, but approach
a freshmen when you know that a lot more of
these guys are going to be with you for you know,
nine months before their first season.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, right, Well, you know, we want to take the
best available whenever they can enroll, because you really don't
count on freshmen help in your team. That doesn't mean
that they won't some won't, so a big time benefit
to go through the winter program, spring balls and it's
like they've been through it, you know, and they're a
(06:45):
sophomore in some ways. So you know, I think you've
seen that in a couple of guys that are with
us right now.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Kurt, you talked about the offensive line last week.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
But Carter Smith specifically, just how much of all have
you seen from him since you came in the door here?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
And I mean how good of a player can he become?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, I think the sky's the limit. Really wouldn't put
a limit on it. I think he's having a good
camp at least the first three days. And he's a
good player last year too. But you know, guys normally
improve from their freshman year to sophomore to junior to senior.
I think you're seeing that with him. So he's got
(07:26):
a lot of talent. He's a great kid, high character guy,
be good leader on this team also, so looking for
him to that big.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Year for us.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Kurt, you've talked about improving rather than just sustaining.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
How do you do that?
Speaker 5 (07:42):
How do you get that much better when you've got
a team coming off eleven and two and a.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
C F peep or Yeah? Well, like I said, I've
said numerous times, you know, every team, regardless of your
record a year before you guys start at ground zero
in January and we're very processed or buy into the process,
improve daily, no limitations on what you can accomplish, get
consistency and performance, high standards, don't lower your standards, and
(08:11):
if you prepare right, you write your ticket, so to speak.
The key is doing all those things, being able to
handle success, being able to handle failure. So you know,
I see this team improving, but we still have a
long way to go offensively.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
How much do y'all change each year?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I'm sure you know throughout the spring, y'all watch others
throughout the whole sport, But just how.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Much do you add and you know, subtract each year. Well,
it's hard to put a percentage on. I mean, there's
new stuff. You want to stay on the cutting edge,
see what other people are doing well, what you can
do better. And then you got to build around your quarterback.
And every quarterback is different. You got to highlight his
strengths and then you know, put your playmakers in position
to make plays. So you know, it may not look
(09:05):
different to the average fan up in the stands, but
normally year to year it's you know, it's hard to
put a percentage on. Depends on what your quarterback's a
pocket guy, duel guy, you know.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
So, coach, I want to go back to Carter when
you first got here.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
What made him one of the few guys you wanted
to keep from that old Indiana kind of tenure, and
then kind of what stood.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Out to you and how quickly did he buy into
how you do things?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, well, you know, there were quite a few I
wanted to keep. We just weren't able to keep them.
And there were a couple of alignemen I wanted to keep.
But fortunately he came back into the fold, which was
huge for us, and I'm glad he did. And like
I said, he's a really good football player, he's a
really good student, he's a really good guy. Comes from
(09:56):
a great family.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
Like Jill coach, I wanted to ask you about Tyreek Tucker.
He's been with you and Pat for a few years now,
seemed to really pop a little bit last year. What's
the opportunity in front of him this year?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Well, he's competing for a starting position right now. We've
got four older guys inside kind of rotating. You want
to have depth there. You know, he had played significant
number of snaps last season, played well, didn't have the
greatest spring, but a back those old ways this falling
(10:31):
camp and we're excited about him.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
You've coached Kamara now for over half a decade. This
is a guy that he's aiming for sack records, saying
he wants to leave his opponent's scars. I mean, what
does he meant to you as both a player in
person over this past you know, six years now, Kamara?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah, I mean, you know, the production is one thing.
I've seen him come a long way as a true
freshman starting in that COVID spring. Remember SCS didn't play
in fall with two bad shoulders that both needed surgically
repaired at the end of the season. That's said a
lot right there. And you know he's done a lot
of great things on the field that comes from great families.
(11:11):
Highly intelligent guy and really all I want from him
I want to see him cut it loose every single play, play,
you know, play with fire, play with energy. And when
he does that, you know he's a great player.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
So that would Sig from earlier this week. Again, camp
gets into the second week, it starts to grind a
little bit, but you have to be impressed with the approach.
The way Sig is exactly the same this year as
he was last year. There is no change in his approach,
(11:48):
and that is just somebody who knows that what they
do works, and I give him a lot of credit
for that. Real briefly, I also, as we move on
over to Darren de Freeze's basketball team is doing some
exhibition games in Puerto Rico. Be sure to check peaks
dot com for all the great coverage of that from
(12:09):
Jeff rob Johns and everybody on the website. But wanted
to just talk a little bit about the exhibition game
that I you played in Puerto Rico against I guess
it's Central University of Bayamon that they played. Indiana wins
ninety eight to forty seven in a game that the
(12:32):
Hoosiers just basically dominated all the way through. You look
at Indiana's team, what do you learn from exhibitions like this, Well,
it's not televised, so obviously I haven't seen them play.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
But.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
You look at the guys who try to stand out
a little bit, and Trent Sisley led the team with
twenty one points, followed by Josh Harris scored thirteen. You
had Luke I'm sorry, Lamar Wilkerson scoring twelve. Sam Alexis
and Reed Bailey both score ten points in this one
(13:14):
to to round out the double figure scores. The key
takeaways on this, and this is just me looking at
a box score. To be quite honest with you, Who's
your shoot fifty one point two percent from three point range?
They shoot just nine of thirty three. That obviously is
something that Hoosier fans might raise their eyebrow a little
(13:35):
bit about. But it's an exhibition game. It's one game.
You got a team that can go ahead and and
is figuring itself out. But the fact Sisley knockdown all
three of his attempts is important. Wilkerson three of thirteen
from three? Was that a bad day? Was that a thing?
(13:55):
We don't know? The interesting thing about this basketball this
Who's your Basketball team is it's very, very, very much
so like Tom Crane's first team, but with hopefully more
talent because there ain't anybody from last year, nobody at all.
So if you have any idea about what this coming
year's team is going to look like, you're deluding yourself.
(14:18):
You have no idea. I have no idea. Darren Devrees
has no idea. He could go ahead and take a
look at it in workouts and practices and things like that.
And the fact that this new coaching staff is taking
this trip is really really important. For getting the player's
experience playing together everything that goes along with that. But
(14:38):
you know this year's IU basketball team, there's talent there.
Well that talent mix. It's all weight and see because
we have never seen these guys play together in a
real game. And obviously we won't know about this team
at all until December, which is generally how it works.
(15:01):
But this one really you have no idea what you're
working with. You have past production and other programs, but
not guys that are coming together under this. So be
sure to go to peaks dot com check out the
coverage Jeff rab John's and Trevor Andershock have and Jared
Kelly have over there. Because this is an IU basketball
(15:24):
team that it's very exciting because the unknown is exciting
and you have this talent. Don't lean into it too
much in terms of exhibition stuff because it doesn't mean
a lot. It could tell you a little bit about
some skills, Guys who are maybe hunting shots, Guys that
(15:45):
are you know, your rebounders that you're gonna be able
to get to that there's a little bit of that,
But honestly, this IU basketball team is brand new. The
whole program is brand new and I kind of feel
like that's a positive. And I'll talk about this a
lot more as we get closer to the basketball season,
(16:06):
But there are so many changes with that basketball program
that I've talked at length before about how this is.
You had Indiana one point oho, then you had Calvin
Sampson and that fallout and the players that were left
were Brett Finkelmeyer and Kyle Tabor, and then Indiana two
(16:30):
point zero is basically like an expansion team wearing the
same uniform as the old team. Think about the old
Cleveland Browns they moved to Baltimore and new Cleveland Browns
expansion team. They get the history and the uniforms, but
the franchise is different. That's Tom Crean's era when he started.
(16:50):
That's Indiana two point oh. And we've gone through obviously
Crean and Archie and Mike Woodson, and do we get
to this point and there's kind of Indiana three point zero,
but a better version of it than when it was
just a dead expansion team with Crean where he was
(17:12):
just trying to collect players anyway that he could and
put together a roster that first year. This will be different,
but I mean, I'm talking about from the head coach
to all the players, to some behind the scenes people,
a lot of turnover with that basketball program. So to me,
this is going to be regardless of how it plays out,
(17:34):
this is going to be an incredibly exciting basketball season
because we don't know anything about about any of these
teams so and we won't for a long time. So
we see, we will see how it all plays out.
But the Hoosiers at least getting some game experience together.
We'll see how how they you know, once we get
a chance to see them play, we'll we'll get a
(17:57):
chance to uh to actually know more about the team.
But the fact that they're getting game experience regardless of
the opponent is really really important for this team going forward.
And also taking an international trip invariably as a bonding
situation for a team. So hopefully the Hoosiers will be
able to build on what they got going on in
(18:17):
Puerto Rico. Again, for all the latest information of that trip,
visit peaks dot com. Well it's all the time we
have on the Peaks podcast this week. I want to
thank you for listening. I want to remind you to
visit peaks dot com for the very best and IU
football and basketball coverage. You're gonna find anywhere Nobody covers
who's you're recruiting better than Jeff rab John's, Matt Weaver, Trevor, Andrews, Shock,
and Jared Kelly. So come be a part of a
(18:38):
thriving and exciting community at peaks dot com. Folks, you
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But for now and for Jeff, Matt, Trevor, and Jared,
I'm ken Bikoff saying thanks for listening. Everybody,
Hi, you doing everybody, I'm Ken bike up and welcome
to the Peace Podcast. We have worked reached, I should say,
we have reached the worst part of fall camp, and
that is always you get to sort of the middle
to end of the second week, the excitement of the
start of camp is gone, the grind of camp starts
(00:35):
setting in. There's not a game for a couple of
more weeks. So you reach this point the in camp
and keeping the energy up and keeping everybody kind of
focus is really really important, and Kurt Signetti and his
coaching staff do a great job of doing just that,
(00:56):
making sure everybody stays on task, not lose focus, staying crisp,
and that's really important. I'm not saying this as an
indictment of former coaching staffs in any way, shape or form.
It's a very normal thing for players to go through
to where you get to the middle of camp and
(01:16):
it's the same stuff over and over and over. I
don't want to try to disparage anything from other coaches.
I'm just saying that Sega and his group do a
great job of making sure everybody stays crisp, stays on point,
works their way through it. Now again, you have a
couple of weeks until the Old Dominion game. So at
(01:41):
this point you're just kind of looking for incremental improvements
and what is better today than maybe it was last week.
How is everybody approaching everything? And I think that that
Kurt Signetti in what You're about to hear really really
talks about where those improvements are being seen and what
(02:02):
he likes and doesn't like about camp. So we're gonna
be hearing from sig uh here in just a second.
But you know, he is Uh. I really have always
liked his approach to everything. Nothing is super flowery. He's
a He's an interesting guy. He says some interesting things,
(02:23):
uh in interesting ways that get headlines. But his focus
is fantastic. The no nonsense way that he goes about things,
I think really has set the tone for for this
program and has has changed, uh kind of just the
the level and it's different way, different strokes for different folks.
(02:46):
You know, some some coaches are a little more light hearted.
Some coaches are They mold the team to their their will.
Tom Allen, for instance, was a guy who could talk,
tell stories, was friendly. Get to know Tom Allen a
little bit. His teams were very successful let's not overlook
(03:09):
the success that Indiana had under Tom Allen in twenty
nineteen and twenty twenty. This is a different approach that
Signetti brings of just focus of confidence. And I know
that some outsiders think that that sig is a little arrogant.
(03:29):
I don't take it as arrogant. I take it as
confidence in that what he's doing is going to produce results.
And so he doesn't have to say a lot, doesn't
have to have to really delve into a lot of
things deeply. He believes in what he's doing. So it's
different struggs for different folks. Without any further ado though,
(03:50):
midway through camp, let's go ahead and hear from head
coach Kurt Signetti during his weekly press conference at the
media that was held earlier this week.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
All Right, practice for is in the books. Got a
lot to do in a short amount of time. So
that's what training camp is all about.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
So opening up to questions, coach on the first three
practices you've seen tape on, what have been your takeaways
out of week one?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, the first practice we went out, it was really
hot and humid. I think the guys got gassed early.
We had a lot better energy day two, and I
thought we made a big jump on day three. So
that's the key to the drill. Get better, you know,
every single day, improve more, more guys doing their job,
consistently doing things that winning football teams do. Understanding also
(04:46):
that we're installing a lot of new stuff that for
the young guys, you know, it is a little bit
of an overload.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
So, uh, you've had a few true fresh been kind
of in recent years make the jump kind of into
prominent roles. Is the biggest obstacle for those guys the
physical nature of the jump or the mental hurdles you
mentioned kind of overloading them with the install and things
like that. What's kind of the biggest obstacle they need
(05:15):
to over come to kind of true.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Freshmen a little bit of both, you know, when they
graduate and their seniors or fifty years seniors, their body
is gonna look a lot different. But I guess the
main thing would be maturity level and being able to
handle all the things, especially once school starts, you know,
handling success, failure, being consistent, having good habits, not getting
(05:40):
caught up, you know, and things that freshmen get caught
up in. So we got a couple freshmen doing fairly well,
but you know, let's.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
See where we're at.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Just to follow up on that, especially with the Simmer
signing window, it seems like any more so many more
of those guys are coming in mid year. Like ten
years ago, you have a small handful. Now it feels
like more than half a class usually enrolls midyear. What's
changed about both Maybe the way you see freshmen go
through that process when so many more of them have
that spring season first. And what changes maybe about the
(06:13):
way you I don't want to say project, but approach
a freshmen when you know that a lot more of
these guys are going to be with you for you know,
nine months before their first season.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, right, Well, you know, we want to take the
best available whenever they can enroll, because you really don't
count on freshmen help in your team. That doesn't mean
that they won't some won't, so a big time benefit
to go through the winter program, spring balls and it's
like they've been through it, you know, and they're a
(06:45):
sophomore in some ways. So you know, I think you've
seen that in a couple of guys that are with
us right now.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Kurt, you talked about the offensive line last week.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
But Carter Smith specifically, just how much of all have
you seen from him since you came in the door here?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
And I mean how good of a player can he become?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, I think the sky's the limit. Really wouldn't put
a limit on it. I think he's having a good
camp at least the first three days. And he's a
good player last year too. But you know, guys normally
improve from their freshman year to sophomore to junior to senior.
I think you're seeing that with him. So he's got
(07:26):
a lot of talent. He's a great kid, high character guy,
be good leader on this team also, so looking for
him to that big.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Year for us.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Kurt, you've talked about improving rather than just sustaining.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
How do you do that?
Speaker 5 (07:42):
How do you get that much better when you've got
a team coming off eleven and two and a.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
C F peep or Yeah? Well, like I said, I've
said numerous times, you know, every team, regardless of your
record a year before you guys start at ground zero
in January and we're very processed or buy into the process,
improve daily, no limitations on what you can accomplish, get
consistency and performance, high standards, don't lower your standards, and
(08:11):
if you prepare right, you write your ticket, so to speak.
The key is doing all those things, being able to
handle success, being able to handle failure. So you know,
I see this team improving, but we still have a
long way to go offensively.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
How much do y'all change each year?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I'm sure you know throughout the spring, y'all watch others
throughout the whole sport, But just how.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Much do you add and you know, subtract each year. Well,
it's hard to put a percentage on. I mean, there's
new stuff. You want to stay on the cutting edge,
see what other people are doing well, what you can
do better. And then you got to build around your quarterback.
And every quarterback is different. You got to highlight his
strengths and then you know, put your playmakers in position
to make plays. So you know, it may not look
(09:05):
different to the average fan up in the stands, but
normally year to year it's you know, it's hard to
put a percentage on. Depends on what your quarterback's a
pocket guy, duel guy, you know.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
So, coach, I want to go back to Carter when
you first got here.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
What made him one of the few guys you wanted
to keep from that old Indiana kind of tenure, and
then kind of what stood.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Out to you and how quickly did he buy into
how you do things?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, well, you know, there were quite a few I
wanted to keep. We just weren't able to keep them.
And there were a couple of alignemen I wanted to keep.
But fortunately he came back into the fold, which was
huge for us, and I'm glad he did. And like
I said, he's a really good football player, he's a
really good student, he's a really good guy. Comes from
(09:56):
a great family.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
Like Jill coach, I wanted to ask you about Tyreek Tucker.
He's been with you and Pat for a few years now,
seemed to really pop a little bit last year. What's
the opportunity in front of him this year?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Well, he's competing for a starting position right now. We've
got four older guys inside kind of rotating. You want
to have depth there. You know, he had played significant
number of snaps last season, played well, didn't have the
greatest spring, but a back those old ways this falling
(10:31):
camp and we're excited about him.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
You've coached Kamara now for over half a decade. This
is a guy that he's aiming for sack records, saying
he wants to leave his opponent's scars. I mean, what
does he meant to you as both a player in
person over this past you know, six years now, Kamara?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah, I mean, you know, the production is one thing.
I've seen him come a long way as a true
freshman starting in that COVID spring. Remember SCS didn't play
in fall with two bad shoulders that both needed surgically
repaired at the end of the season. That's said a
lot right there. And you know he's done a lot
of great things on the field that comes from great families.
(11:11):
Highly intelligent guy and really all I want from him
I want to see him cut it loose every single play, play,
you know, play with fire, play with energy. And when
he does that, you know he's a great player.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
So that would Sig from earlier this week. Again, camp
gets into the second week, it starts to grind a
little bit, but you have to be impressed with the approach.
The way Sig is exactly the same this year as
he was last year. There is no change in his approach,
(11:48):
and that is just somebody who knows that what they
do works, and I give him a lot of credit
for that. Real briefly, I also, as we move on
over to Darren de Freeze's basketball team is doing some
exhibition games in Puerto Rico. Be sure to check peaks
dot com for all the great coverage of that from
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Jeff rob Johns and everybody on the website. But wanted
to just talk a little bit about the exhibition game
that I you played in Puerto Rico against I guess
it's Central University of Bayamon that they played. Indiana wins
ninety eight to forty seven in a game that the
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Hoosiers just basically dominated all the way through. You look
at Indiana's team, what do you learn from exhibitions like this, Well,
it's not televised, so obviously I haven't seen them play.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
But.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
You look at the guys who try to stand out
a little bit, and Trent Sisley led the team with
twenty one points, followed by Josh Harris scored thirteen. You
had Luke I'm sorry, Lamar Wilkerson scoring twelve. Sam Alexis
and Reed Bailey both score ten points in this one
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to to round out the double figure scores. The key
takeaways on this, and this is just me looking at
a box score. To be quite honest with you, Who's
your shoot fifty one point two percent from three point range?
They shoot just nine of thirty three. That obviously is
something that Hoosier fans might raise their eyebrow a little
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bit about. But it's an exhibition game. It's one game.
You got a team that can go ahead and and
is figuring itself out. But the fact Sisley knockdown all
three of his attempts is important. Wilkerson three of thirteen
from three? Was that a bad day? Was that a thing?
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We don't know? The interesting thing about this basketball this
Who's your Basketball team is it's very, very, very much
so like Tom Crane's first team, but with hopefully more
talent because there ain't anybody from last year, nobody at all.
So if you have any idea about what this coming
year's team is going to look like, you're deluding yourself.
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You have no idea. I have no idea. Darren Devrees
has no idea. He could go ahead and take a
look at it in workouts and practices and things like that.
And the fact that this new coaching staff is taking
this trip is really really important. For getting the player's
experience playing together everything that goes along with that. But
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you know this year's IU basketball team, there's talent there.
Well that talent mix. It's all weight and see because
we have never seen these guys play together in a
real game. And obviously we won't know about this team
at all until December, which is generally how it works.
(15:01):
But this one really you have no idea what you're
working with. You have past production and other programs, but
not guys that are coming together under this. So be
sure to go to peaks dot com check out the
coverage Jeff rab John's and Trevor Andershock have and Jared
Kelly have over there. Because this is an IU basketball
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team that it's very exciting because the unknown is exciting
and you have this talent. Don't lean into it too
much in terms of exhibition stuff because it doesn't mean
a lot. It could tell you a little bit about
some skills, Guys who are maybe hunting shots, Guys that
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are you know, your rebounders that you're gonna be able
to get to that there's a little bit of that,
But honestly, this IU basketball team is brand new. The
whole program is brand new and I kind of feel
like that's a positive. And I'll talk about this a
lot more as we get closer to the basketball season,
(16:06):
But there are so many changes with that basketball program
that I've talked at length before about how this is.
You had Indiana one point oho, then you had Calvin
Sampson and that fallout and the players that were left
were Brett Finkelmeyer and Kyle Tabor, and then Indiana two
(16:30):
point zero is basically like an expansion team wearing the
same uniform as the old team. Think about the old
Cleveland Browns they moved to Baltimore and new Cleveland Browns
expansion team. They get the history and the uniforms, but
the franchise is different. That's Tom Crean's era when he started.
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That's Indiana two point oh. And we've gone through obviously
Crean and Archie and Mike Woodson, and do we get
to this point and there's kind of Indiana three point zero,
but a better version of it than when it was
just a dead expansion team with Crean where he was
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just trying to collect players anyway that he could and
put together a roster that first year. This will be different,
but I mean, I'm talking about from the head coach
to all the players, to some behind the scenes people,
a lot of turnover with that basketball program. So to me,
this is going to be regardless of how it plays out,
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this is going to be an incredibly exciting basketball season
because we don't know anything about about any of these
teams so and we won't for a long time. So
we see, we will see how it all plays out.
But the Hoosiers at least getting some game experience together.
We'll see how how they you know, once we get
a chance to see them play, we'll we'll get a
(17:57):
chance to uh to actually know more about the team.
But the fact that they're getting game experience regardless of
the opponent is really really important for this team going forward.
And also taking an international trip invariably as a bonding
situation for a team. So hopefully the Hoosiers will be
able to build on what they got going on in
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Puerto Rico. Again, for all the latest information of that trip,
visit peaks dot com. Well it's all the time we
have on the Peaks podcast this week. I want to
thank you for listening. I want to remind you to
visit peaks dot com for the very best and IU
football and basketball coverage. You're gonna find anywhere Nobody covers
who's you're recruiting better than Jeff rab John's, Matt Weaver, Trevor, Andrews, Shock,
and Jared Kelly. So come be a part of a
(18:38):
thriving and exciting community at peaks dot com. Folks, you
are not going to be disappointed. Folks are out of time.
But for now and for Jeff, Matt, Trevor, and Jared,
I'm ken Bikoff saying thanks for listening. Everybody,
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